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After decades of scarring girls by giving them an impossible ideal of beauty, body issues and eating disorders, it’s nice to see that Barbie will now be doing something productive – preparing them for the eventual zombie apocalypse.…
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December 1st, 2011 by: Conner Flynn
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It took a while, but finally we’ve got Hot Wheels with tiny POV video cams built-in. You can even watch the footage from your Hot Wheels directly on a small screen underneath the toy car.…
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January 19th, 2011 by: Range
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Music pattern-matching games like Guitar Hero owe a lot to the early electronic games of the 1970s like Simon and Merlin…. Now Mattel is back with a brand new music game which feels like a modern homage to the classics.
Instead of pushing buttons like the old games, LOOPZ
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July 25th, 2010 by: Technabob
![Jake Sully Wheelchair Action Figure [Avatar Epic Fail] jake_sully_wheelchair_action_figure_avatar](http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jake_sully_wheelchair_action_figure_avatar-150x150.jpg) |
I’ll apologize in advance to any of our readers who find themselves confined to a wheelchair, or who are physically-challenged in any way. But whoever at Mattel thought that this pint-sized Jake Sully in a wheelchair should be called an “action figure” clearly had their head firmly up their arse.…
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February 19th, 2010 by: Technabob
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Got a spare Nintendo Power Glove sitting around? Why not do something cool with it like turning it into a modern musical instrument?
That’s what synth hacker Denkitribe did when he rewired an old Famicom/NES Power Glove to control an Arduino-based controller circuit. The Arduino translates finger movements into MIDI…
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August 22nd, 2009 by: Technabob
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Looking for a way to bring your gaming obsession into the bedroom? What better way but with a couple of these video game controller pillows on your bed.
Perfect in bed or on your sofa, these 20″ x 20″ pillows from Tofu Design ($40 each) are covered with images of…
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March 4th, 2008 by: Technabob
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If you’ve ever wanted to build up a collection of video game nostalgia, but don’t have the patience to dig through garage sales and flea markets to put it all together, check out this insane auction.
A dedicated video game fanatic going by the name of sengoku has decided to…
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November 4th, 2007 by: Technabob